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...best friend's wedding with the news that he is going to marry his best friend's betrothed. The action begins with a furniture-throwing brawl between the bride elect and her drunken groom (the gynecologist having been laid out quite early in the festivities), and ends in a glorious reconciliation, with all three sitting down together to the wedding banquet...
Described by the authors as "a kaleidoscopic cross-section of representative forms of American life," the play focuses about the life of John Ward Moorehouse, born in Wilmington, Delaware, on the Glorious Fourth. He grows up to become J. Ward Moorehouse, public relations counsel, and U.S.A. surrounds his story with those of others who enter into his life, and with a variety of historical material: biographies of figures from the period--the Wright brothers, Eugene V. Debs, Rudolph Valentino, Henry Ford, the Unknown Soldier among others--songs, dances, newspaper headlines and stories, stream-of consciousness narrative of actual events...
...capital, in the wilds of Goiás state, was actually a glorious shambles. "I needed five more days to get it ready." wailed Israel Pinheiro, Brasilia's chief builder and first mayor. "But we just could not spare the time." In a last-minute cleanup, Pinheiro put 60,000 men to carting off debris, planting palm trees, scrubbing the red dust off Architect Oscar Niemeyer's graceful buildings. In a single day. 2,000 steel light poles were planted; overnight 722 homes were painted white...
FICTION 1. Hawaii, Michener (1 )* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (2) 3. Ourselves To Know, O'Hara (6) 4. The Constant Image, Davenport (4) 5. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (3) 6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (9) 7. Kiss Kiss, Dahl (8) 8. Two Weeks in Another Town, Shaw (7) 9. The Devil's Advocate, West (5) 10. Aimez-vous Brahms . . , Sagan...
...Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell...